Playing favorites & mission possible?
{Here from @Paula_Deen's wayward tweet? She meant to link here!!} I've got a challenge for you: Can you choose your all-time favorite post? Not one of your favorites, not your top three, but Just. One.? If you're like me,...
Dominoes, effectual
I can't help but wonder if my message is clear this week. Bueller? Bueller? Mastery of playis youth's fountain;Its droughtwithers the young. My response to Laura's "15 Words or less" photo-poem challenge. Join...
Wood of art
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 2009. Weathered and tumbled and aged like fine wine, driftwood always intrigues me. It's a mystery with stories to tell, and I want to know them all. Beautiful in my eyes, this piece begged to be...
The Southern Way
Blood and marriage are reason enough to gather on the hottest day of the year to celebrate family, for no other reason than that. It's the Southern Way. On a canvas of conversation broad-stroked with laughter, the fizzy flit of flies joins a threatening...
If you can’t say anything nice, really, truly, keep your mouth SHUT!
Don't let their saccharine smiles and sibling affection fool you for a second; these are evil, evil children and I'm quite ready to sell them to the circus. Today. Justification #1 – The girl {aka "my former daughter"} My first gray hair...
Time, irrelevant
Does anybody really know what time it is?Does anybody really care? Harbour Town Marina at Hilton Head Island, June 2009.Taken with my webcam from the roof of The Yacht Club,overlooking the famed Harbour Town Lighthouse. For more years than I can recall,...
Watermelon, strawberries, cherries & skulduggery???
June, 2009, my back patio. Fresh fruit, the perfect taste of summer. It was almost too pretty to eat…a l m o s t ;). Oh, and why the heck would I add the word "skulduggery" to this post title? Because my friend who brought us the fruit...
Conscientious compassion is a beautiful thing…
You don't go to Calcutta, India without experiencing a lifetime of stories. The people I met, even those I merely passed on the street, have burrowed deeply into my heart and settled quietly in my mind and I don't know quite what to do with...
Happy feet…very
May 2009, Kiawah Island, SC.Nope, no sand in my shoes just feet on the...